Towel-back



E. T. BRIGHAM TOWEL RACK.

APPUCATlQN FILED MAR. 1 1921. Reissued July 12, 1921. 15,147

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN 'r. BRIGELAMfOF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO JACQUES ROUSSO, or 1 os memes, CALIFORNIA.

TOWEL-RACK.

Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissued July 12 1921 Original No. 1,371,295, dated March 15, 1921, Serial No. 669,502, filed January 4, 1912. Application for reissue filed March 17, 1921.

T all whom it may com-mm Be it known that l,'l'lnwiN T. .lnuonAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Towel- Backs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to towel racks for use chiefly in public buildings. clubs, factories, bath houses and like places, where face towels are frequently carried away or thrown carelessly aside, and my object is to produce a device of this character upon which towels can be. aocessibly hung with more than a reasonable degree of security against loss by theft or carelessness.

A further object is to provide a rack having an arm for the support of clean towels, a second arm for the support of soiled towels and a connection between said arms over which the towels after use may be slipped, to separate them from the remaining or clean towels.

A further object is to produce a towel rack of the character outlined of simple, strong, durable and cheap construction.

With these objects in view and others as hereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a towel rack and supporting means embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of the device or socket piece for receiving and reliably holding one end of the rack;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective viewof the end of the rack for engagement with said socket piece;

Fig. 4 is .an enlarged detail perspective view of the said socket piece; and

Fig. 5 is a vertical. section taken through the other end of the rack, a second socket piece for receiving said end. and a pin for locking the said parts together.

In the said drawing, a spring rod is bent to approximately U-form, and comprises a substantially J-sha )ed arm 1. a substantially horizontal arm .2 a ove the lower'end mterminal of the J-shaped arm, and an arched Serial No. 453,150.

portion 3 connecting the upper end of arm 1 and the outer end of arm 2. I

7 Arm 2 near its free end is provided with a diametric opening 4, and the lower portion of arm. 1, is diametrically grooved at its end to produce a neck 5 and a head 6. The head 6 is cut away at opposite sides so that its width shall be substantially the same as the diameter of the reduced portion or neck 5, the said head occupying an inclined position when the rack is vertical.

A socket device for receiving the free end of arm 2, consists of a sleeve 8, preferably provided with a base flange 9, through which securing devices fasten the socket device to a wall or other support, and said sleeve is provided with a diametric opening 10 to register with opening 4 of arm 2, and to secure said parts in fixed relation, av pin 11 extends through said alined openings and is secured in such position by a padlock 12 or equivalent device. For convenience the pin is fastened to the socket piece by a chain 13, and a chain 14 attaches the padlock to chain 13.

A socket piece for engagement by the headed en of the rack, consists of a sleeve 15, provided witha base flange 16 secured byscrcws or other fastening devices, to a suitable support, and the outer end of the sleeve 15 is closed by an end 17 having a slot 18, communicating with a longitudinal slot 19, in the body of said sleeve.

20 indicates towels in which are secured eyelets 21, capable of slipping on or 011' either end of the rack. The arm 2 is preferably employed as a support for. the clean towels and a large number of the same can be strung on said arm.

The rack is secured in position by first disposing it at such an angle that its normally inclined head shall stand in a vertical position and the rack itself in a. laterally inclined position. The said head is then slipped through the slot 18 endwise into sleeve 15, or it may be fitted in place by raising the rack to cause the head to enter the sleeve through slot 19. In either case the neck 5 will be disposed in slot 18 and the head 6 will engage the inner face of the end 17 of said sleeve and the shoulder 6 at the opposite end of the neck from the head, will bear against the outer face'iot said end 17.

stituting the axis of such movement, and in assuming sueh vertical position the head 6 I is disposed transversely of slots 18 and 1.9,

mounted on said member impeding, the free and hence is incapable of passing through said slots or either of them. The rank 18 then sprung outward sufficiently to permitof the free end of arm 2 being inserted in sleeve 8, andthe? pin 11., is slipped through the opening 10 of sleeve 8 and the opening in,arn1.2,fand the padlock or its equivalent is employed to lj re'vent the withdrawal of said pin. I a

With the parts thus arranged, it is obvious that it is impossiblet'or a person without. a proper key, to readily remove a towel from the rack witholiit Cllttll'lg or tearing such towel, and should; this be done where the towels are equipped'with metal eyelets, the latter remain on the rack and will show that a towel is missina. As'the towels are used they maybe readily slipped forward and over the arch 3, and down upon arm 1, and from the last named arm they hang until removed from the rack for washing;

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a towel rack embodying the features of advantage enu merated as desirable in the statement ,of the object of the invention, and I wish it to be understood that while I have illustrated and described, I do not desire to be restricted to the exact details of construction shown and described as obvious modifications will suggest themselves to one skilled in the art.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l A towel rack eompris'ing a combined towel support and guide member; and means passage'of towels, substantially as described. 2. A towel rack comprising a combined towel support and guide rod; and means iuryunted on said rod impeding the free pas sagreof towels, substantially as described.

3, A tmvel raek comprising a support; a towel guide member extending outward from said support; and towel retain means cooperating with said guide mom and arranged. to releasably retain tow J, thereon, said retail, ng means being an ranged and :zulapted to permit of passage of prforated tow .fl raiding means over and aroln'ld it, suhsti itially as deserilxul.

4. A. towel vraeh. e nniirising a support: towel guide e; ling oiiltwardly substant' .y hor zmitally in said, sum and towel retaiinii in us not; ierating a th said; guide rod anr arming, d to releasably retain towels the! mi, said retaining means being arranged an. ipted to permit passage .of towel gromgts over and around it, substantially a s described.

5. A towel raekeompr ing a support a towels th men, a:

means mounted on I towel guide uielnbiir (stimuli outwardly from said supper and to ol. retaining means n'lountrd on so" i outwardly extending guide .inelnber and arranged to releasably retain towels thereon, substantially as do scribed.

(i. A towel rat-h emn 'nrisiilig a summit; a tmrel guide rod extending 'UlliWHlj'Clly sub stantially l'uirizontally from said support; and towel retaini means mounted on. said guide rod and t leasably ietain I i. i a port; a

' outwardly amt 2i retaining d ijuitwardly e dinp, guide rns-ui'iimr alul M ml til ably retain towels the d n imiuig means bei o arrar. ""d and auia'p'itml to pe ol? 'perloru ad towel g over and. armind it, substantially e1 1 bed,

8. A towel raelr eomprisinp; a s'lixpport; a towel .le rod i' ternfl.i1ig outwardly and substantially horia daily from said "support; and towel ire-taming means mounted on said outwardly extending guide rod and arranged toreleasaidy retain towels thereon, id retaining; iii-ans being arranged ted to rmit the passage of towel ,L'fiOlIll over and around it, substantially as described.

9. Av 'towel ing a support, and a towel'nuii fit 1 ndily connected with said 5ll}.)[ l"h, said rod emisisting of an. upper towel sup :vrtinu; portion extending oldwardly substanti itally from said support and prowl with an. upwardly uxteruling :n'rh at it outer end, vid rod extending from said. areh dowiwrardly up po and inwardly to said siimmrt, substantially as deserihed,

10. A. towel raelr eoin jw ug a support; a towel guide rod detaif a, Z eonneeted witl'i said, support, said rod ecmsisting of an up per towel su wortingr port in extending; out-- wardly substantially hori )ntally from said support and provided w h an upwardly extending a1 u on em], said real ex- I .l at its 7. tending from said areh dowi'iwardly an. l in wardly to said summrt; an d detach nneetions between t ands oi 'ud rod and said support, subst rutizdly as eseribed.

11 A towel ri iner (101111 using a support; branliets earl "l by said siirp 'iort; a

o t ntal and one substanrod having one h tially vertieal H1; means to look the s oi the rod in the respeeti've brackets;

end at i means to loosely retain tOWGlS upon the her mtal portion of the rod, substantially ribed.

12. A towel rank comprising a support; a guide member extending substantially horizontally therefrom and then down: wardly; and unans located adjacent the outer end of said horizontally extending portion and arranged and adapted to impede but not revent the passage of a towel therefrom, substantially as described.

13. A towel rack comprising a support; a towel ide rod extending substantially horizonta 1y therefrom; a towel guide member extendmg downwardly from the outer end of said rod; and means located adjacent the outer end of said rod and arranged and adapted to impede but not prevent the passage of a towel therefrom, substantially as described.

14. A towel rack comprising a support; a towel guiderod extending substantially horizontally therefrom and then downwardly and rearwardly to said support; and means located adjacent the outer end of said horizontall extending portion and arranged an adapted to impede but not prevent the passage of a. towel therefrom, substantially as described. a

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWIN T. BRIGHAM.

Witnesses KENNETH W. Tnonrn, GEORGE Y. THoRrE. 

